Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Trainee doctors return to work
Doctors greet each other at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, Tuesday, as hundreds of trainee doctors resumed work, ending their 18-day strike over a government medical reform plan. Medical trainees nationwide went on strike Aug. 7, calling for the government to scrap its plan to expand the medical student quota, establish a new public medical school and to give medical insurance coverage to Oriental medicine treatment. Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji